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I visited Stonehenge recently with friends. It was chill, misty and raining. Because it was torrential rain, we used the shuttle bus up to the stones and then followed the paths in a circular [...]

Lineage is an unusual word that arose when a celeb claimed to be a descendant of King Charles 1. A radio item also featured the word in a programme purporting to be about ancestors. In truth, it [...]

It’s a strange world. The news is full of plastic destroying the oceans whilst I am inundated with Christmas catalogues. If there seems no correlation between these two then turn the pages [...]

As a pensioner gardener, I assumed that most people know what bedding is, but I am clearly wrong. I noticed some wallflowers on sale in the centre of Christchurch. They were in bunches of ten, [...]

The Brent Geese have arrived in Christchurch Harbour; a time for celebration. For me an icon of nature’s cycle and a beautiful bird: For My Pagan Ancestor Zuri, food! Brent geese are small, [...]

The 10 mile Dorset Stickler, with 1500′ of climbing, was run on the 28th October 2018. The weather gods dropped the temperature by degrees. As my wife Ann and I left Christchurch that [...]

It’s an odd finding; that men are far more inclined to buy plastic supermarket bags. Women, it appears, are not embarrassed to carry a reusable jute bag. Are men less green? I listened to [...]

I was walking along Avon Beach on the 15th October and there they were, five swallows. It was not swallow weather being slightly chill and overcast. They, of course, knew that and were preparing [...]

The BBC presenter said, ‘everybody is infatuated with Megan?’ Well, don’t count me as everybody and I wanted to shout out, ‘get a life’. Poor old Megan, surrounded [...]